Wilburn Brothers - Arkansas Chords

C
Though the brambles took the cabin I was born in

        Am                                       C
And the briers have claimed the fields I used to plow

          F                          C
There's a yearning in my heart to be going

                G7                 C
To that 40 acre patch God sowed in Stroud 



     Am                        C
Arkansas are your rivers still flowing 

               F                G7
Is your cotton growing white as snow

        F                               C
Are the squirrels still a barking up on Old Crowleys Ridge

        F                            C              Am
Has the girl I was sparking gone and burned another bridge

     C
Arkansas



I have known the troubles I was born to know

       Am                                C
I have wanted things a poor mans born to want

       F                               C
And in all my dreams and memories I go running

                           G7               C
Through the fields of Arkansas from which I sprung



     Am                        C
Arkansas are your rivers still flowing

               F                G7
Is your cotton growing white as snow

       F                               C
Do the young men still fiddle with the thought of growing rich

    F                                C              Am
And slowly turn to old folks sitting whittling on a stick

     C
Arkansas